12.31.2012

December: A Recap

December was a whirlwind month. We may have set a family record with four illnesses this month (two colds + not one, but two stomach viruses). Despite those setbacks, we tried to make the season as special as we could.

We made snowflakes (using this awesome tutorial from last year). Dan even lifted his ban on glitter - the gift that keeps on giving - so we could make the snowflakes sparkle.

We had a visit from Santa.

Somehow we misplaced the bottle of wine we bought for Santa. So we made these instead (inspiration here).

I made reindeer cupcakes for Jude's class Christmas party.

Poor Jude threw up suddenly and unexpectedly at his class party and didn't get to eat a single cupcake. Thankfully, I was there and able to bring him home right away. Unfortunately, that didn't stop stomach virus #2 from spreading to all three of his sisters... just in time for Christmas.

a sweet moment with a sick sleeping baby

Those moments away attending to sick children have only solidified Iris's mess-making skills, which are really quite stellar at this point.

We made a family gingerbread house (a big improvement from this one, huh?).

There was a mishap that involved formatting a memory card for the camera, which resulted in losing all of the pictures we took of gift opening. It wasn't meant to be this year.

Dan did get this photo of my two "big" girls and me in front of the tree on Christmas Eve.

1 comment:

LOVE the pics of Evie decorating the tree and Iris with the ornaments! Totally jealous of your domestic abilities with the cute reindeer cupcakes. That Cheerios mess is quite spectacular--go big or go home, right? ;-) And the pic with you and the older girls is just beautiful!